Electronic Health Records May Help Customize Medical Treatments
(By Richard Harris for NPR) Chances are your doctor has stopped taking notes with pen and paper and moved to
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Month: January 2017
New Rules to Limit Medi-Cal ‘Death Fees’
(By Emily Bazar for Kaiser Health News) Six months after her mother died in 2014, Karen Craig opened her mailbox
Read MoreCall in the cuddlers: Volunteers step up to soothe babies born dependent on opioids
(By Megan Thielking for STAT) BOSTON — Gloria Cerullo spends hours each month talking to newborns about what they might
Read MoreCleveland Clinic physicians perform first-ever deep brain stimulation surgery for stroke recovery
(By Heather Punke for Becker’s Hospital Review) On Dec. 19, Cleveland Clinic physicians became the first to perform deep brain
Read MoreCancer Death Rates Have Dropped
Cancer deaths, the second-biggest killer in the United States, have dropped twenty-five percent since 1991 which represents about two million
Read MoreMedicare Advantage Disenrollment Period Ends Soon
If you regret your selection of a private Medicare Advantage plan, you have to February 14th to (unless beneficiaries qualify
Read MoreJudge refuses to rescind order requiring HHS to clear Medicare appeals backlog
(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) U.S. District Judge James Boasberg refused Wednesday to set aside an order requiring
Read More5 key statistics on the Medicare Advantage marketplace
(By Mary Rechtoris for Becker’s Hospital Review) A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found the Medicare Advantage market is highly consolidated
Read MoreClearing the Way for Direct Primary Care Agreements in Florida
On Tuesday, Florida Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon, filed the bill (SB-240), to help clear the way for “direct primary care”
Read MoreCancer Drugs Tops Pharmaceutical Sales
Spending on oncology medicines will eclipse other diseases for the first time and is the biggest share of the $519
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